The limitation so far has been that users and developers usually have to wait for the big players like Google, Yahoo and Bing to add the relevant information to their maps.
CloudMade has conveniently side stepped this issue by allowing its maps to be collaboratively edited, making it a kind of “Wikipedia for maps”. The results have been quite impressive, as TechCrunch reports.

The phrase mobile application developer gets frequently bandied about because for a while not it’s required specific tools and expertise to build these types of applications. But as general purpose application development tools become more tightly integrated with HTML5, Javscript and cascading style sheets (CSS) a question about whether the average IT organization is going to need dedicated tools for building mobile application not only arises, the whole concept of being a mobile developer may eventually become as quaint as the phrase Web developer before it.

Your Twitter mashup just got 50% more content. And if you follow many people, you may have already noticed an increase in the flow of information. Why? Twitter just allowed developers 50% more calls per hour.

The Bing Maps Elevations API allows you to get elevation values for a set of locations, a polyline path or area on the Earth. It provides a set of elevations and the associated zoom level is returned...